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Don't use helicoils but have SW 2024-SP5 and this is what I got.

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How is DDM? I looked at it like 20 years ago....looks like its come a long way and passed up PDM on functionality. I didn't admin the system, but as an end user I didn't have any issues once I learned the button pushes. DDM managed Creo, SW & ACAD files and was used to initiated, signoff & ...

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User since SW2003. Last (2) jobs have used standard with aftermarket PDM (DDM & DBWorks). Thankfully none have used the SW cloud but I've always had the latest revision. Learned long ago not to expect SW to get better. If I were paying the bills I'd cancel the SW subscriptions because each new r...

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FWIW: (Using 2024/2.0) it'll flatten if the left side of the sketch is changed to construction lines or the flange is flush/behind the bend.

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My last two employers have used DDM and DBWorks . As an end user I didn't have any issues with either once I learned the button pushes. DDM managed Creo, SW & ACAD and initiated/signoffed/approved ECNs. DBWorks managed SW files. ECN were via email chain and the factory/floor would see the update...

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https://help.solidworks.com/2025/Englis ... elcome.htm

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Animagraffs video on the SR-71. Worth a look see if you have 55 minutes to watch it.

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Hi, Problem is, I was a heavy keyboard user - I only ever used mouse for navigation and selections, as everything else was assigned to keyboard shortcuts. But that is very inconvenient with SpaceMouse, constantly having shift my hand from it to the keyboard. This is the reason I quit using the Spac...

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2nd verse same as the first

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Shortest answer: I don't know Short answer: What worked pre-SW 2022 doesn't work now. Long answer: Never know until one tries but another random engineer inputting random mouse clicks in Solidworks may discover a random workaround. Turns out that it's been long enough since I've used GD&T that I...

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We are rebalancing the price of Autodesk Fusion to represent the value it delivers. Effective January 30, 2024, the annual subscription price will increase to $680," up 40% from the current $490/yr. ================== Effective January 30, 2024, the new subscription prices will increase to the...

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Headline: Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating

Alternative Headline: Google Drive 3DExperience users say Google Dassault Systèmes lost their files; Google Dassault Systèmes is investigating

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https://www.youtube.com/@CADCAMTUTORIAL ... LAM/videos

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Youtube channel recommendation

https://www.youtube.com/@animagraffs/videos

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I'm using to cool for school Manbase. Did a search and the last mention of I could find was Feb '93 BTYE magazine. Unix-based enterprise resource planning system for process manufacturers, ManBase 7 .0 combines a client/server architecture, a relational database management system, and fourth-generat...

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Still the same in 2023 SP1.0

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The secondary mirror face is very annoying. Almost have enough new muscle memory to click in the Features to Mirror window before selecting the features.

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Short cut, 30 minutes

Extended cut, 93 minutes

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Looks like a nice update, they didn't phone in.

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Learned something, up to reference in the linear pattern command. I've been using equations to determine the spacing.

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When a row(s) is selected/highlighted is the delete button still greyed out?

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Can't use '/' as a configuration name.

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In our system, 95% of the time configuration name = our P/N so the '/' isn't missed. But when I've used fractions in configuration names, like Alex I've used decimals and then use the faction in the configuration description.

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Need to use the / for divide.

Don't know what the \ is doing.

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one thing that i never figure out about (right-click) select midpoint is that it seems like it could not select multiple midpoint in sketch? (or rather it always clear all selection except the midpoint) Eg: [Right click, Select midpoint] on sketch line 1 → midpoint of line 1 selected → [Right click...

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@Glenn Schroeder the 'Up to ref..." is new to me. I've always used equations, in an Excel Design Table, to calculate the values in the sketch array and keep it centered on the part. I'll have to try 'Up to ref..." next time and see how that works.

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@Dassault3DS reports that only 3% of @Solidworks users have taken up 3dExperience Works -- a much lower number than I'd've expected, but kind of inline with user disinterest at 3dexperience World events. Commentary by @monica_schnitge on Dassaults' Q1 at https://t.co/x7rA8axkJ7 https://twitter.com/R...

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Have no idea but this gif shows it being done. https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7b55 ... 8d~mv2.gif

Taken from here: https://www.sldraftingdesign.com/post/2 ... techniques

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An example of using mates with configurations. Capture170.JPG Have an RF filter with a frequency range of 380 - 512 and in the top level the distance mates are suppressed so I can move the tuning assembly thru its range of motion. Could've used a limit mate but didn't need one. Capture173.JPG With t...

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It's because currently everything fixed. If it's fixed it won't move when the length of the panel changes. If you mate the angle to the panel then it will move with the panel. Best practice is only have your first part fixed and use mates to locate all other parts in an assembly. Capture166.JPG With...

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ACAD\Solidworks\Creo 2 and DDM . It's used for revision control, ECN signoff (have a couple workflows based on product group) and file access (QC & purchasing) but it's not used for BOMs or any other ERP stuff. I'm just a user, no admin, they've been using it 6+ years. Good: Cheaper version of P...

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If you want group the Part1 configs, without grouping the screws, one has to give the Part1 configs the same P/N.

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Since our config name equals P/N this is a nice to have option in 2023

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"D1@Boss-Extrude1@Part_Name<#>.Part"

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Like @Dwight I use insert body and the last step is Delete/Keep Body...

My most likely use case is creating a lid for a housing. Other then thickness and hole/thread sizes everything else is referenced geometry.

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Updated to 2023 SP0.1 and two days in it's been so far so good.

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Upgrading from SW2021, is 2023 stable or should we update to 2022 instead?

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I decided to give OpenGL another go now that I'm in my production environment. I guess my card just doesn't have enough horsepower. The highlighting below is realtime. I am a GIF. Click me! Opengl.gif My guess, SW isn't using your graphic card. Have an old computer ( i7-3770 old) that would only ru...

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Looking forward to meeting you at the Big D event.

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I think there's a battle here between UI consistency and evolution. The longer I use something the more sensitive I get about things moving around unexpectedly. Habit and muscle memory is still #1 in UI IMO. The icon color change in 2016 drove me nuts. I'm a one hand on the keyboard and one on the ...

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Have assemblies with cables shown for routing purposes only (cable dwgs are ACAD) using a SW file with multiple configs with repeat part numbers.

This is how the BOM is set

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Configurations in cable file. The [BOM P/N is shown in brackets]

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My boss wants configs saved in DDM so base file part/asm file needs to be a different name then the configs. So we name the base file -000 if the file with configs.

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The simplest way to handle that would likely be to have multiple configurations in the model. Reference whichever is appropriate in the Assembly, which would be reflected in the BOM. This method also has the least potential for errors, lost links, mates, etc when switching from one to another. Have...

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It's the same graph as shown here, scroll 80% down the page to "SOLIDWORKS Quality Initiative"

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[snip] While you dislike SW for obvious reasons, you have a lot of compelling reasons to continue with it. Most notably, you already have a nice pool of SW knowledge going in. You won't become indentured to someone else's expertise. You can interview (more readily available) designers with confiden...

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The part count on our assemblies isn't large so making every option a config isn't a problem. If it's on the ERP BOM it needs to be on the SW BOM. Loctite/solder/etc are in the SW assembly. Cables are done w/ ACAD so while there may be 4 different cables just need a correctly routed faked cable with...

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Use DDM for pdm at work. It doesn't integrate as well with SW as it does with ProE or Acad. Can't use right-click, Open, have to use Open from DDM's add-in menu. It also can't tell the difference between a ProE or SW file, of the same name, but does know the difference between a SW/ProE file and a A...

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Used AutoCAD from 2.5 to 2000. Started 3D with Inventor 5, next job used SW 2003 and the rest is history. My biggest hurdle was learning to think in 3D. Then once you're 'learned' to make parts and assemblies you're only half done because one still needs to learn drawings. Be patient it took me a co...

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You could try "part in part". Open a new part file, go to Insert>Part and select the master you want to reference. This opens a dialog that allows you to choose exactly what you want to bring into the new part (solids, surfaces, sketches, planes, etc.). Ditto try Insert Part, use it all t...

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